James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales's definitive oral history ofSaturday Night Live, hailed as incredible (Vulture) and required reading (People).
When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary ofSaturday Night Live, Live from New Yorkwas immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show. In their own words, unfiltered and uncensored, a dazzling galaxy of trail-blazing talents recalled three turbulent decades of on-camera antics and off-camera escapades.
Now decades have passed, and bestselling authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales have returned to Studio 8H. Over more than 100 pages of new material, they raucously and revealingly take the SNL story up to the present, adding a constellation of iconic new stars, surprises, and controversies.
James Andrew Millerhas worked in virtually all aspects of journalism -- as well as on the entertainment side of television production and development -- for more than twenty years. Along with Tom Shales, he is the author of the #1 bestsellerThose Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN.
Tom Shalesis America's foremost television critic, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1988. For twenty-five years, he was film critic for National Public Radio.
Constantly entertaining....It's revealing, it's funny, it's mesmerizing. ---
Entertainment Weekly A guilty pleasure of the highest order....
Live From New Yorkshines. ---Lev Grossman,
Time A sharp-clawed, incisive account of how nearly three decades' worth of comic talent has emerged from a single television show. ---Janet Maslin,
New York Times Tremendous fun. ---Rob Walker,
Newsday A patchwork of backbiting, humor, intelligence, backbiting, gossip, backbiting, and backbiting. ---
Newsweek Refreshing....Shales and Miller paint a detailed landscape portrait of what has beclv
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